City hall staff want to set the doomsday clock for the Eamon’s heritage service station that has been in storage since it was moved off the site of Tuscany LRT station. If there’s no use for it found by Halloween 2015, it should be demolished or otherwise unloaded, a council committee report states.

CALGARY - A luxury residential development just outside Calgary’s city limits has launched new sales phases for the project to take advantage of the growing appetite by homebuyers for high-end property. The Watermark at Bearspaw development recently launched the third phase of its single-family estate lots and will launch the fourth and final phase of its luxury villas on September 27.

Perched on a quiet bluff on the southwestern tip of Tuscany in Calgary’s northwest is the Vistas of Tuscany — an exclusive, intimate alcove of 14 luxury bungalows and two-storey villas — all featuring stunning views.

The suspect in a weekend shooting that left a Tuscany woman in critical condition was arrested early Monday in Kenora, Ont., and now faces multiple charges, including attempted murder. Calgary police said 51-year-old Ulises Boris Quinteros was arrested in the Ontario city nearly 1,400 kilometres east of Calgary.

Calgary police are looking for an armed and dangerous suspect they believe shot a woman in Tuscany Springs early Sunday. Police were called to the 100-block of Tuscany Springs Hill at around 4 a.m. where they found the victim, a woman in her 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; she is in critical but stable condition.

The ribbon-cutting Saturday for the opening of the Tuscany LRT station also marks an end. The construction spree that gave Calgary 17 new LRT stops since 2001 is over, leaving an unusual construction lull.

Fortunes have improved for Calgarians who want to be legal hen-raisers, four years after council voted 11-3 against permitting backyard coops. Only four of those 2010 skeptics remain on council, and one of them — Coun. Ray Jones — wants to help lead the way on resurrecting plans for an urban chickens pilot project.

All the reserved park-and-ride spaces at Tuscany LRT have been snapped up before the station opens — and, more importantly for neighbours, before out-of-towners could snag them. CTrains begin running Monday to the new terminal station for the northwest line. It comes with 572 parking spots, though no exit ramps from Crowchild Trail, so motorists must snake through Tuscany or Rocky Ridge to get to the twin lots.

Fred Wong, Calgary’s former transit director, can vaguely recall first hearing complaints the LRTs were overcrowded. It wasn’t long into the start of his career planning CTrain frequency, in the mid-1980s.

The prospect of months of dirty, gravel-filled roads has one Calgary councillor wondering if city administration is trying to send a pointed message to politicians and the public. After a winter where higher-than-average snowfall resulted in the use of more than double the normal amount of sand and salt on city streets, the City of Calgary has reduced its spring street sweeping budget by 10 per cent. Not only will spring cleanup take longer than usual, stretching well into summer, city crews will only sweep roads once and will no longer tow parked cars that obstruct scheduled street cleaning.

A community west of the city known for its large lots, cascading ponds and mountain views, is back on top. Watermark at Bearspaw is a back-to-back winner of the National SAM Award for Community Development.

Seismology sleuths may have tracked down the source of a mysterious vibration that shook homes and echoed throughout the northwest this week. A series of clues have led university researcher David Eaton to believe a schoolyard in Panorama Hills was the likely epicentre of what may have been a rare frost quake.

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